The Empire begins with the Fourth Scourge.

Chapter 2317 The Executor's Death

2318: The Executor’s Sorrow

Boom~~Boom~~Boom!!!
Explosions continued to sound, and the entire ground shook violently as if a magnitude 7 earthquake had erupted. The people on the bridge staggered here and there, and they all looked for places nearby to hide and steady themselves.

The Lusankaya Executor-class super star destroyer is 19000 meters long, which is the size of a medium-sized city. The destructive power that can shake a city is terrifying.

The Ogre-class siege cruiser is a warship with both prominent advantages and disadvantages.

In terms of combat power, it can't even defeat a frigate, and in terms of maneuverability, it is slow and clumsy. However, the super-heavy proton torpedoes it launches have a destructive power that is almost devastating!

The super-heavy proton torpedo actually has no technical content. It is just an ordinary proton torpedo that has been greatly enlarged. It is not difficult to make it. But why did the Galactic Republic and the Galactic Empire choose not to develop this weapon? The main reason is the problem of hit rate.

At the current level of technology, both electronic jamming technology and close defense system technology are very mature, and missile attacks are either jammed or intercepted. Therefore, if you want to improve the missile's penetration capability, you need to counter-jamming and counter-interception. For example, add shields to the missiles, add electronic countermeasure systems, add intelligent guidance systems, and so on.

If the target is just a fighter, then these systems don't need to be too complicated, after all, fighters can only do so much. But if the target is a warship, the close-in defense system and electronic jamming system on a battleship can easily interfere with missiles.

So the question is, should we continuously increase the technological content of missiles to make them resistant to interference and interception, and then push the cost of a missile to an extremely high level, or should we find another way?

So the answer is carrier-based aircraft!
The Galactic Empire now uses a combination of pilots and navigation robots, while the Principality of Dawn uses a combination of pilots and intelligent AI. Their purpose is the same - to ensure the flexibility of the fighter jets in judging the situation as much as possible while giving the fighter jets the efficiency of automatic control.

Then the fighter formation will break through the warship's defense and deliver missiles or proton torpedoes at close range. In this way, the fighters can be reused, and the proton torpedoes or missiles do not need to be so expensive, which kills two birds with one stone.

However, this still has disadvantages, that is, the fighter's carrying capacity is limited, and it cannot carry proton torpedoes with a larger equivalent. So the task of carrying greater firepower gradually changed from frigates to star destroyers, and became larger... But as the carrier became larger, the maneuverability became worse, and it could only be turned into long-range shooting. Then it comes back to the problem, the turbolaser cannon is not as powerful as the proton torpedo, and the proton torpedo can't penetrate.

Therefore, this upward spiral is the essence of the contradictions and confrontations in cosmic wars.

But the Ogre-class siege cruiser is an outlier among outliers. It has no penetration capability, which means it can only attack from a distance, but the super-heavy proton torpedoes it launches are not very high-tech. This results in the Ogre-class siege cruiser basically posing little threat to warships, and is mostly used to fight against fixed armed space stations, spaceports, or planetary shields.

But now, Severance Tann taught the Galactic Empire Admiral Michel Unser another way to use it!
The threat of super-heavy proton torpedoes to warships is very small, just because they can't hit. Once this problem is solved, the destructive power of super-heavy proton torpedoes will be so great that no warship can resist it.

Even the Executor-class Super Star Destroyer can't do it!!
Admiral Michel Anser understood thoroughly this time that Severance Tann had seen through his plan to let the Lusankaya put up a certain amount of resistance before retreating gracefully. The reason why she sent two Ancolon-class Titan battleships to risk their lives to launch a surprise attack was to prevent the Lusankaya from having a chance to retreat!
Severance Tann, she intends to destroy every Imperial warship! The Executor-class Super Star Destroyer has already proven in the previous battle on Naboo that although Kuat Power Dockyard is plagued by various scandals, its strength as the largest industrial entity in the galaxy is still there.

The super star destroyers they built were truly extremely durable. Even if the shields were destroyed, there were still several sets of backup shield systems. Even if the backup shields were all destroyed, the main armor belt of the battleship was extremely thick. Even when the main armor belt was destroyed, the countless explosion-proof compartments and solid internal structures in the middle of the battleship allowed the battleship to last for a long time.

The battle on the planet Naboo was proof that the Principality of Dawn had an absolute advantage but was unable to destroy the Lusankaya after besieging it for several hours!

Therefore, if Severance Tann continued to launch a frontal attack as planned, she would not be able to stop the Lusankaya, which was originally located at the rear of the formation and had already made up its mind to escape after resisting for a while!
Severance Tann's strategy this time was perfect, psychologically, tactically and strategically!

And a perfect battle should get a perfect result.

Boom! Boom! Boom! The bridge was shaking violently, and then Michel Anser clearly felt his body begin to tilt to one side. This meant that the gravity generating system and gyroscope in the center of the battleship were destroyed!

Michel Anser sighed. He had originally planned to take the shuttle back to the command center on the planet Kira before retreating, to continue commanding the next battle and fight to the death. But now, he can no longer see that day.

Having failed to save the empire's largest and newest battleship, he had no reason not to sink with the ship.

Michel Anser straightened his uniform, put on his cap that had fallen off during the tremor, and then issued the final order in a low voice: "The Lusankaya can no longer sustain its operations, and the situation is irreversible. Notify all departments of the ship to evacuate as soon as possible and abandon the ship!"

After saying this, he saluted deeply and kept this posture.

The bridge was in chaos, everyone was busy escaping, only a few officers walked up to Michel Anser, saluted solemnly, and stood firmly without any wavering.

From the outside, the Lusankaya Super Star Destroyer had begun to tilt, and explosions were occurring at at least hundreds of locations on the ship, spewing out countless flames, debris, and corpses.

A large number of life capsules were launched from the bottom of the battleship, indicating that this super battleship had come to an end.

(End of this chapter)